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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by vbezhenar on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:57AM (#32992253)
> when was the last commit to some of the GNU utils we use every day?

17 hours ago: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commits/master

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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by atoav on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @04:01AM (#32992672)
Sure, because the repo contains a ton of tools. Yet another advantage of the monorepo: if everything is in one repo nobody will notice that you haven't touched that one part of the code since you wrote it.

Or let's phrase it differently: there will always be a part of the code that you do not have to touch for decades if all goes well. And if that part sits in a seperate repo, is it abandoned or just finished?

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